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Re: April Fools posts
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:38:52 GMT
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Frank Filz at ffilz@mindspring.com wrote:
> But never tell anyone what they should find funny,
I agree completely.
> and be careful in
> complaining about what people don't find funny.
Be careful in complaining about what people DO find funny.
> I'm not sure how I feel
> about your joke because I didn't get to read it untainted, perhaps I
> would have found it funny. What soured that whole incident for me was
> that folks who got sucked into the joke were put down for being
> concerned about your leaving the community.
I assume you're referring to Eric's comment:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/fun/?n=6959
Eric's comment wasn't intended as a put-down. There was much confusion about
the use of the term "sucker" or "suckered." Unfortunately, you're still
referring to it as a put-down, even after Eric has specifically stated that
it wasn't so:
http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=9052
> To me that makes Lugnet very
> unfun if compassion is looked on as a stupid thing.
Once again, Eric never intended his comment to be an insult, or to say that
someone's compassion was stupid. This is yet another example of one of those
things that gets blown all out of proportion because someone takes offense
at something and it snowballs from there.
In my opinion, the danger to the community is the overreaction to the
misinterpretation. It's been discussed before my joke came along that all
the overreacting is a bad thing, and yet it continues.
Is our solution to sterilize all of our posts? I'd hate to see that happen.
~Mark P. "No I'm not kidding" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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| (...) Sure, but I hope no one would get upset if someone complained about being made fun of. (...) how you cut, slice, or dice it, folks were upset, and then after they got upset, people kept telling them "go shush up, it was just a joke". That (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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